Page 5 - Violet Coco News Today

In today’s newsletter: Fiona Harvey breaks down the year in climate news, and what 2023 has in store for the planet.

After being sentenced to 15 months’ jail for briefly blocking a lane on the bridge, Violet Coco discussed with the WSWS about the political implications of climate change and Australia’s anti-protest laws.

Climate protester who took part in an unauthorised protest by environmental group Blockade Australia to disrupt a freight line to Port Botany in Sydneys south-east has been sentenced.

“We are going to see mass floods and mass fires and swing between those at increasingly deadly rates until we really begin to repair and heal this planet,” said Coco.

A climate change activist who suspended himself above a train track at a Sydney port has avoided jail despite his "irresponsible, unlawful" ...

State or non-government, selective or comprehensive, single sex or co-ed, the best individual indicator of HSC success is still a student’s postcode.

Last Tuesday, I was released on bail pending appeal in March. While my sentence is outrageous – as are the anti-democratic laws that allowed it to happen – I urge you not to lose sight of the reason I was jailed. Our way of life is under threat from the greatest, most dangerous crisis humanity has ever seen.

The speaker of the House of Representatives should take a leaf out of commissioner Catherine Holmes’ book in her handling of Scott Morrison.

Several Australian states have passed new anti protest laws, including NSW, in the past year. The right to protest in Australia is increasingly being erroded.

More than $22,000 a minute is being handed over in subsidies to fossil fuel companies. Jay Larbalestier, a Fireproof Australia activist, speaks about why people are protesting.